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The Essential Nature of Antichrist

January 13, 2007 | Comments: 0

Antichrist will not promote idolatry, but seduce men from the true God, as also from all idols, and set himself up as the only object of adoration. This remarkable idea, that sin in antichrist issues in a downright self-deification, discloses to us the inmost nature of evil, which consists in selfishness. In antichrist, all love, all capability of sacrifice and self-denial, shows itself entirely submerged in the making of the I all in all, which then also insists on being acknowledged by all men, as the centre of all power, widsom, and glory.
~ John Chrysostom, quoted by Patrick Fairbairn in The Interpretation of Prophecy p. 363

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